Holes filled in --- sprinkling system needs to be fixed...we are almost there!
Almost finished....
Pumping.....
The new piece of pipe---HURRAH!
Pumping.....
The Slave Labor (poor guys couldn't even stand up straight digging the 2nd hole)
Most of you are lucky enough to have your home hooked up to your local sewer line.....there is no sewer line close to my home and in 1986 it would have cost $24,000 to hook up to the closest line.......what do you think it would cost in 2009??? So we have a SEPTIC TANK! I now know more than I ever dreamed I would know about septic tanks. The main thing I have learned is that when you are digging in them and around them-----THEY STINK!!! We have been having troubles for almost two months. But last weekend it got so bad that we couldn't even flush toilets. Water would not go out.....Our lifesaver came in the form of Kirt Nelson. What an honest and hardworking man he is. I called him at 5:00 pm on Monday and he was at our home by 7:30 that night. Brady and his brother had dug a deep hole where Devin thought they would find the trouble with the baffle---yes a baffle is a necessary component of a septic tank---and yes we were baffled by the baffle. Kirt got in the hole and found the trouble in 5 minutes. He stayed an hour and gave directions for Brady to dig another hole the next day---ON HIS BIRTHDAY! Brady and his brother, Craig, found the other baffle. Kirt returned Tuesday afternoon, pumped the tank, replaced the two disintegrated baffles, and used a high power spray to unclog the pipe out to the drainfield. Unfortunately, Kirt found that the drainfield pipe was crushed 3 feet out from the tank. Back to our rescue today, and he delicately maneuvered a back hoe through a small gate, across the grass, saved our bushes, and dug another 7 foot deep hole to replace the crushed pipe. My hero!!! He added a new vertical pipe so that we can use a snake if we need to clean it out again. WoW!!! Kirt filled the hole, repositioned the grass, put the cement curbing back, and got that big back hoe back to his trailer without any damage to trees or grass. I was amazed. So we now need Brady to fix sprinklers that were damaged and fill the two holes he dug and DA-DAH! 31 year old septic tank working great!
3 comments:
What a life saver you have ~ not only Brady and his brother, but the nice man that took the honest time to fix it and do it in a way that kept your yard from being ruined! Sorry it was such a miss in the beginning!!
Glad you were able to get it fixed!
So glad that you were able to get everything taken care of!
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